How does the Marin County Sheriff Cooperate with ICE?

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office has cooperated with ICE for years, in spite of California’s sanctuary state status and overwhelming local opposition. With ICE and DHS ramping up their cruel and lawless violence against immigrant communities and peaceful protestors across the country, it's essential that we do all that we can to stop any and all collaboration between our sheriff and federal immigration authorities. Here’s how our sheriff cooperates with ICE:

SCAAP: Reporting our undocumented neighbors to ICE for $1,000 apiece. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office participates in SCAAP, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. SCAAP is a federal program that provides a roughly $1,000 bounty to local law enforcement agencies for reporting information on undocumented immigrants in their custody. Over the past three years, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office has received over $1.2 million for reporting over 1,000 immigrants to ICE and DHS.
Our Demand: Fully and permanently withdraw from SCAAP. Adopt a budget without SCAAP funding and pledge to vote No on any future SCAAP grant applications.
Booking Logs: Publishing personal information ICE can use to detain immigrants. The sheriff openly publicizes its booking logs, which contain the personal information and release dates of people in their custody. This allows ICE to wait outside the county jail and detain those they suspect of being undocumented.
Our Demand: Replace the current system of public booking logs with a searchable database that allows the loved ones and attorneys of those in custody to find the information they need, while making it unavailable to ICE and DHS.
Direct Collaboration: Handing over undocumented immigrants to ICE. Even though California is a sanctuary state that bans local law enforcement agencies from directly sharing immigration status information of those in their custody with ICE, our sheriff exploits a loophole in state law that allows for this kind of direct collaboration with ICE. As a result, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office directly reports over a dozen undocumented immigrants to ICE each year, with the justification that this is warranted because those reported have been convicted or charged with a “serious felony.”
Our Demand: Stop any and all voluntary reporting of undocumented immigrants to ICE, DHS, or other federal law enforcement agencies.